Saturday, July 29, 2006

Free Invisible Statcounter

For the last few months I have been using a free statcounter service to keep track of my stats and for the most part I am very satisfied. I mostly use it for my other site(shittystories.com) that actually gets traffic but I also use it to my keep track of my few Fiscal Fool hits. Regardless, the last couple weeks I have noticed that the statcounter.com numbers don't match the numbers from my network ad companies. For example, some days I might have 1000 hits on statcounter.com and 800 on Adbrite and Adengage. I have to use these programs due to the fact Google won't let me use Adsense because I have "profanity" in my URL. I have probably seen 50 sites that contain ads with nude girls next to Adsense but my URL is more concerning for them....the worst thing on my site is the word "shit". I am a bitter little man.....Moving forward. I think the issue is that statcounter.com counts when people use the back button to go back to a page they have already viewed as a hit where as Adbrite and Adengage probably do not. As anyone else noticed this trend or have any suggestions?